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The term’witchcraft’ has different meanings for different people and different cultures. There isn’t any way to’nail down’ a particular definition for the term’witchcraft’ aside from to say is it a craft practiced by magicians.

You can’t call’witchcraft’ a specific faith. Witchcraft has been found in many different cultures and on all continents in some form, both currently and historically. There are common threads that run through all of the several ways in which sorcery is practiced. For instance :

There are religious elements that include spirits and/or deities.
* There are connotations that deal with the afterlife.
* wizardry is a part of all of the many forms of sorcery.

The term’witchcraft’ has been used to outline any practice that involves wizardry, and the term’witchcraft’ looks to be outlined by the culture and values counseled by each community. Sorcery is viewed by different groups with varying degrees of respect, suspicion, or indifference. But most cultures define their own version of sorcery as either’good’ or’evil,’ and there is no middle ground.

Many see witchcraft in any form in a similar way that they view satanic ritual abuse ( SRA ). SRA is seen as physical and sexual abuse associated with hellish rituals or the occult. To these people it implies that anything even remotely related to magic is malevolent.

The label’witchcraft’ has been applied by most to any practice that is used to influence or control another person’s mind or body against their will and for malicious purposes which will undermine the accepted social or religious order.

It is commonly difficult to distinguish bad wizardry or’black magic’ from good magic or’white magic.’ White magic is
designed to guard humans from black magic spells but white sorcery also uses’spells’ and’connotations.’

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